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Mozilla Products Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities

Systems Affected

Overview

By taking advantage of one or more vulnerabilities in Mozilla
products, an attacker may be able to take control of your computer.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird

Mozilla has released an updated version of Firefox to correct
these problems.

Mozilla has released an updated version of the Thunderbird email program to correct these problems.

Description

There are vulnerabilities in various features of the Mozilla web
browser, Mozilla email application, Firefox web browser, and Thunderbird
email application. Some of the vulnerabilities involve the way these
applications handle URLs or images. For instance, an attacker could
cause an application to crash or could take control of your computer
by convincing you to view a malicious web site or email message.